Version 1.8 of the GStreamer multimedia framework is now
available. New is support for hardware-accelerated zero-copy
video decoding on Android, a new tracing system that will support more
advanced debugging tools, initial support for the Vulkan API, and the
debut of the new, simplified GstPlayer playback API (which we looked at in October). There are many
other additions and improvement; see the release notes for full details.GStreamer 1.8 released
Source: LWN.Net